Industry classification

The data in Investment Map is adapted from Revision 3.0 of the International Standard Industrial Classification of all
Economic Activities (ISIC).

ISIC is defined by the United Nations Statistics Division and is a standard classification of
economic activities (including both merchandise and services) arranged so that entities can be classified according to the
activity they carry out. The classification was approved in 1948 and is based on four levels. The following revisions have
been made : ISIC Rev.1 (1958), ISIC Rev.2 (1968) and ISIC Rev.3.0 (1989). ISIC Rev.3.1 update, effective May 2002, supersedes
ISIC Rev.3.0.

Revision 3.0, level 1 includes 17 sections identified by alphabetical letters A to Q, level 2 covers 62 divisions identified
by two-digit numerical codes and level 3 is defined by 161 groups identified by three-digit numerical codes. The Table below
shows the first two levels of Revision 3.0 and their equivalent in Revision 2.0.

71 - Renting of machinery and equipment without operator and of personal and household goods

72 - Computer and related activities

73 - Research and development

74 - Other business activities

L - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

75 - Public administration and defence; compulsory social security

M - Education

80 - Education

N - Health and social work

85 - Health and social work

O - Other community, social and personal service activities

9 - Community, Social and Personal Services

90 - Sewage and refuse disposal, sanitation and similar activities

91 - Public Administration and Defence

91 - Activities of membership organizations n.e.c.

92 - Sanitary and Similar Services

92 - Recreational, cultural and sporting activities

93 - Social and Related Community Services

93 - Other service activities

94 - Recreational and Cultural Services

P - Private households with employed persons

95 - Private households with employed persons

95 - Personal and Household Services

Q - Extra-territorial organizations and bodies

99 - Extra-territorial organizations and bodies

96 - International and Other Extra-Territorial Bodies

0 - Activities not Adequately Defined

00 - Activities not adequately defined

Most countries do not report FDI data in ISIC Rev 3.0 and hence some adaptations have been made in Investment Map.

The main differences between Investment Map and ISIC Rev. 3.0 lie in the definitions of levels and the creation of
additional residual categories, such as "Unspecified Secondary" or "Unspecified chemicals and chemical products"
which have been introduced primarily in order to capture FDI data that cannot be classified accurately. For example,
when a country only provides the total FDI data for the manufacturing sector, without any further breakdown, the data
is allocated to industry "Unspecified Secondary".

Level 1 in Investment Map has been created in order to analyse the FDI and Trade data for the main sectors of the
economy (see Table 2). For ease of use, economic acitivities are refered to as industries in Investment Map.

The third level of economic activities and the labels of industries are available for download in Spanish and French in
Excel format (size: 96 KB)
and an
Open Document format (size: 32 KB).

Data on trade in services in Investment Map presently cover the three broad categories of commercial services, defined by
the IMF: travel services, transportation services and other commercial services. These three categories do not match with the
ISIC nomenclature and have been consequently added as new industries in Level 2.